[MD] Science and the MOQ

[David M]

>
> [Krimel]
 A Christian god that
> neither sets the world in motion nor tinkers with it is useless.

DM: I agree a god that presses the start button or tinkers
is useless, a sense of what is of value that some might call
god is not.

> Obviously there are those who have a vested interest in preserving the
> vocabulary and the structure of certain institutions and traditions. I am
> sympathetic to that. But it seems to me that it would be more productive 
> to
> just be honest and upfront about it.

DM: In the end I may have very little time for most religious thought,
yet I think we are far from reaching this end in our societies and culture.
What is awful about Dawkins is that he is telling the religious to shut
up rather than on insisting that they explain themselves and hear
what others have to say.